I would like to develop a lesson using the 6 +1 traits of writing for first grade centered around the story "The Lost Button" from the book Frog and Toad are Friends. After reading the story, I follow up with a button sorting activity and I am trying to come up with an appropriate writing activity as well. Thank you for your ideas and help!
With 1st grade, you can develop the ideas and organization of their stories using the traits. The main thing to do in the lower grades is to really point out the traits of good writing during your read alouds!!(saying things like "Wow! Isn't that great word choice?" or "Could you pick out those transition words that the author put there to let us know the order of events? We can add those to our writing too.") Anyway, with The Lost Button, brainstorm a list of things students have lost in the past. Have them develop their ideas about how they found it and help them to organize that information into the correct sequence.
With 1st grade, you can develop the ideas and organization
of their stories using the traits. The main thing to do in
the lower grades is to really point out the traits of good
writing during your read alouds!!(saying things like "Wow!
Isn't that great word choice?" or "Could you pick out those
transitio...See More